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Browse 70 movies from Channel Four Films
Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work
Aug 1997
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
Feb 1996
An Oscar nominated short film about a man's life changing when he gets a hairpiece.
May 1994
This is the story of Harry and Flint, an unlikely couple. Harry is a shy young gay man who can't seem to fit into his local bar scene. Flint is a crusty, older, and seemingly straight man with a questionable background. They meet on a gorgeous coastline, and evolve from distrust to deep love.
Jan 1995
A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.
Apr 1984
William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition.
Nov 1990
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Mar 1994
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
Nov 1982
After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.
Feb 1997
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Jul 1984
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.
Feb 1994
Carol, a college student, comes to John's office, her professor, to discuss the grade she has received for one of her papers.
Nov 1994
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Jul 1988
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Nov 1985
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Sep 1998
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
Jun 1995
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Sep 1999
Three blondes from another planet land on earth to conduct research into romantic love
Dec 1991
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Aug 1993